Yay! We finished the bake sale. I was really proud of my blueberry muffins.
I also liked the ricebubble slice. The lemonade was a little bit bitter and could have been sweeter.
If we did it again I think that it should just be the bake sale group selling the things because because we had a plan ready and it got a bit muddled.
Overall I hope we raised the right amount of money.
The money we might make for the back sale is around about $346 if we sale anything at back sale and sealed 20 of the drinks - A.J.
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Healthy Fresh Lemon Drink
How can we be sustainable and low cost as far as cups go?
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/which-plastics-are-safe.html The news about plastics has been pretty alarming lately, causing some of us to go dashing for the water bottles to see what kind of plastic they are—and find out if we’ve been unwittingly poisoning our children and ourselves with chemicals leaching into the water from them. If you’ve been concerned, here is a handy chart that identifies the good, bad, and OK plastics and where they are found. Find out here: 1 Polyethylene terephthalate (PET or PETE)
Used to make soft drink, water, sports drink, ketchup, and salad dressing bottles, and peanut butter, pickle, jelly and jam jars.
GOOD: Not known to leach any chemicals that are suspected of causing cancer or disrupting hormones. 2 High density polyethylene (HDPE)
Milk, water, and juice bottles, yogurt and margarine tubs, cereal box liners, and grocery, trash, and retail bags.
GOOD: Not known to leach any chemicals that are suspected of causing cancer or disrupting hormones. 3 Polyvinyl chloride (V or PVC)
Most cling-wrapped meats, cheeses, and other foods sold in delicatessens and groceries are wrapped in PVC.
BAD: To soften into its flexible form, manufacturers add “plasticizers” during production. Traces of these chemicals can leach out of PVC when in contact with foods. According to the National Institutes of Health, di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), commonly found in PVC, is a suspected human carcinogen. 4 Low-density polyethylene (LDPE)
Some bread and frozen food bags and squeezable bottles.
OK: Not known to leach any chemicals that are suspected of causing cancer or disrupting hormones, but not as widely recycled as #1 or #2. 5 Polypropylene (PP)
Some ketchup bottles and yogurt and margarine tubs.
OK: Hazardous during production, but not known to leach any chemicals that are suspected of causing cancer or disrupting hormones. Not as widely recycled as #1 and #2. 6 Polystyrene (PS)
Foam insulation and also for hard applications (e.g. cups, some toys)
BAD: Benzene (material used in production) is a known human carcinogen. Butadiene and styrene (the basic building block of the plastic) are suspected carcinogens. Energy intensive and poor recycling. 7 Other (usually polycarbonate)
Baby bottles, microwave ovenware, eating utensils, plastic coating for metal cans
BAD: Made with biphenyl-A, a chemical invented in the 1930s in search for synthetic estrogens. A hormone disruptor. Simulates the action of estrogen when tested in human breast cancer studies. Can leach into food as product ages. Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/which-plastics-are-safe.html#ixzz3JyNkUvcv
Step 1Preheat oven to 180°C/160°C fan-forced. Grease a 12-hole, 1/3 cup-capacity muffin pan.
Step 2Sift flour into a bowl. Using fingertips, rub butter into flour until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in sugar.
Step 3Make a well in centre of flour mixture. Add blueberries, milk and egg. Gently stir until just combined. Spoon mixture into prepared holes. Bake for 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted in centre of 1 muffin comes out clean. Stand in pan for 5 minutes. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool. Serve.
Raspberries, sugar flowers or sprinkles to decorate.
Method
Cupcakes:
Preheat oven to 190°C or 170°C fan-forced.
Beat butter with an electric mixer until smooth, add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs and mix well. Add the sifted flour, milk and vanilla, beat until smooth.
Place paper baking cases in a cupcake tin, spoon in mixture until they are about 2/3 full (don’t overfill or they will form peaks). This recipe makes 24 cupcakes so you might need to do this in two batches. Bake for 20 minutes until golden or until they spring back when lightly pressed.
Turn out onto a wire rack to cool while you prepare the icing.
Buttercream Icing:
Beat the butter until it is pale and fluffy. Sift in the icing sugar, add the vanilla essence and milk until you have a light, fluffy mixture. Add extra milk if you need a softer consistency. Spread or pipe icing over cupcakes and top with decorations as desired.
STEP 1Melt the butter, sugar and vanilla in a medium sized saucepan.
STEP 2Remove from heat.
STEP 3Add mashed bananas and stir through until just blended.
STEP 4Add egg and mix in well. Stir in flour, add milk and mix lightly.
STEP 5Bake at 170C for approximately 40 minutes.
Cinnamon Apple Smacks: Healthy Snack in a Flash
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chilled cinnamon apple snack
Some of the best ideas, are some of the easiest ideas! I got this yummy snack idea from a participant in a nutrition class I taught last week. She said she loved slicing up apples, putting them in a baggie, shaking cinnamon over them, and chilling in the fridge for a few hours. So, we tried it:
Cut up an apple
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Put in zip top baggie
Shake ground cinnamon over apples (not cinnamon sugar, just plain cinnamon).
And put in the fridge. We’ve actually had these in the fridge for two days, and they are perfect!
I love this snack, because it’s a great treat for kids standing with the refrigerator door open, wondering what they could possibly snack on. Healthy food for snacking is always the best choice, but sometimes they don’t want to take the time to chop, wash, or season foods to make them yummy, when they just want something now. Plus, this healthy snack tastes like apple pie! MMMMM
theiving during photo shoot
Thievery during the photo shoot above.
cinnamon apples
cinnamon apple smacks
Remember, an apple a day keeps the doctor away.Categories
M1 Bake Sale
Ellen, Sarah, India, Kian, Sam, Jacob=
Yay! We finished the bake sale. I was really proud of my blueberry muffins.
I also liked the ricebubble slice. The lemonade was a little bit bitter and could have been sweeter.
If we did it again I think that it should just be the bake sale group selling the things because because we had a plan ready and it got a bit muddled.
Overall I hope we raised the right amount of money.
The money we might make for the back sale is around about $346 if we sale anything at back sale and sealed 20 of the drinks - A.J.
=
Healthy Fresh Lemon Drink
How can we be sustainable and low cost as far as cups go?
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/which-plastics-are-safe.html
The news about plastics has been pretty alarming lately, causing some of us to go dashing for the water bottles to see what kind of plastic they are—and find out if we’ve been unwittingly poisoning our children and ourselves with chemicals leaching into the water from them.
If you’ve been concerned, here is a handy chart that identifies the good, bad, and OK plastics and where they are found. Find out here:
1 Polyethylene terephthalate (PET or PETE)
Used to make soft drink, water, sports drink, ketchup, and salad dressing bottles, and peanut butter, pickle, jelly and jam jars.
GOOD: Not known to leach any chemicals that are suspected of causing cancer or disrupting hormones.
2 High density polyethylene (HDPE)
Milk, water, and juice bottles, yogurt and margarine tubs, cereal box liners, and grocery, trash, and retail bags.
GOOD: Not known to leach any chemicals that are suspected of causing cancer or disrupting hormones.
3 Polyvinyl chloride (V or PVC)
Most cling-wrapped meats, cheeses, and other foods sold in delicatessens and groceries are wrapped in PVC.
BAD: To soften into its flexible form, manufacturers add “plasticizers” during production. Traces of these chemicals can leach out of PVC when in contact with foods. According to the National Institutes of Health, di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), commonly found in PVC, is a suspected human carcinogen.
4 Low-density polyethylene (LDPE)
Some bread and frozen food bags and squeezable bottles.
OK: Not known to leach any chemicals that are suspected of causing cancer or disrupting hormones, but not as widely recycled as #1 or #2.
5 Polypropylene (PP)
Some ketchup bottles and yogurt and margarine tubs.
OK: Hazardous during production, but not known to leach any chemicals that are suspected of causing cancer or disrupting hormones. Not as widely recycled as #1 and #2.
6 Polystyrene (PS)
Foam insulation and also for hard applications (e.g. cups, some toys)
BAD: Benzene (material used in production) is a known human carcinogen. Butadiene and styrene (the basic building block of the plastic) are suspected carcinogens. Energy intensive and poor recycling.
7 Other (usually polycarbonate)
Baby bottles, microwave ovenware, eating utensils, plastic coating for metal cans
BAD: Made with biphenyl-A, a chemical invented in the 1930s in search for synthetic estrogens. A hormone disruptor. Simulates the action of estrogen when tested in human breast cancer studies. Can leach into food as product ages.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/which-plastics-are-safe.html#ixzz3JyNkUvcv
Migration of chemicals from plastic into food
http://www.foodsmart.govt.nz/whats-in-our-food/chemicals-nutrients-additives-toxins/plastic-packaging/
Healthy Baking
Ideas
Ellen- Blue berry muffins- $2.00
Kian... 2-00 ---- 3-00
Cupcakes:
150g butter, softened
1 1/2 cups Chelsea Caster Sugar
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla essence
2 1/2 cups self-raising flour
1 1/4 cups milk
Buttercream Icing:
100g butter, softened
1 1/2 cups Chelsea Icing Sugar
2-3 drops vanilla essence
1-2 Tbsp milk
Raspberries, sugar flowers or sprinkles to decorate.
Method
Cupcakes:Preheat oven to 190°C or 170°C fan-forced.
Beat butter with an electric mixer until smooth, add sugar and beat until light and fluffy. Add eggs and mix well. Add the sifted flour, milk and vanilla, beat until smooth.
Place paper baking cases in a cupcake tin, spoon in mixture until they are about 2/3 full (don’t overfill or they will form peaks). This recipe makes 24 cupcakes so you might need to do this in two batches. Bake for 20 minutes until golden or until they spring back when lightly pressed.
Turn out onto a wire rack to cool while you prepare the icing.
Buttercream Icing:
Beat the butter until it is pale and fluffy. Sift in the icing sugar, add the vanilla essence and milk until you have a light, fluffy mixture. Add extra milk if you need a softer consistency. Spread or pipe icing over cupcakes and top with decorations as desired.
Makes: 24 cupcakes
Rice Bubble Cake - $2.00
Ingredients
100g butter100g Chelsea White Sugar
1 1/2 Tbsp honey
3-5 cups of rice bubbles
Method
Melt the butter, sugar, and honey in a saucepan. When melted, boil for 3 mins, take off the heat and add rice bubbles, mix in.Put in a swiss roll tin and leave to cool before cutting into squares.
To make this recipe gluten free use gluten Free Rice Bubbles.
This recipe has not been tested by Chelsea sugar.
Banana Cake/ Loaf
Ingredients
Method
Cinnamon Apple Smacks: Healthy Snack in a Flash
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- Cut up an apple
DSC_1267
- Put in zip top baggie
- Shake ground cinnamon over apples (not cinnamon sugar, just plain cinnamon).
- And put in the fridge. We’ve actually had these in the fridge for two days, and they are perfect!
I love this snack, because it’s a great treat for kids standing with the refrigerator door open, wondering what they could possibly snack on. Healthy food for snacking is always the best choice, but sometimes they don’t want to take the time to chop, wash, or season foods to make them yummy, when they just want something now. Plus, this healthy snack tastes like apple pie! MMMMMThievery during the photo shoot above.
http://www.eatrightontario.ca/EatRightOntario/media/ERO_PDF/en/School/Bake_It_Up_final.pdf
http://www.kidspot.co.nz/recipes-for+4835+119+3-ingredient-recipes+3-ingredient-lemon-tarts.htm Jacob's recipes
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/18306/banana+and+blueberry+muffins?ref=collections,banana-recipes
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